No, I'm not mad. Well, maybe...
Soon i'll be working on my house rebuild and want to install both a proper insurance approved alarm system plus my own custom built solution running my own software on a PC. The PC will be tied into various home automation bits and use various inputs to perform various tasks. It's the second take of a project I did many years ago at another property. Not too shabby but didn't suit the home owners then.
Naturally, the latter is going to be unreliable to begin with and may even turn out to be a disaster so I don't want to put all my eggs into this custom solution. My question is if I wire all the wires of a PIR sensor, contact switch, panic alarm etc to a junction point and then split each individual "signal" wire into two (one for each alarm panel), can I expect any undesired effects? I'm no master of electronics but I understand additional circuitory resistance from my second panel might cause odd behaviour within the first panel.
I guess another way to frame my question is, has anyone ever wired one sensor to two identical off the shelf alarm panels in parallel?
Thanks
Soon i'll be working on my house rebuild and want to install both a proper insurance approved alarm system plus my own custom built solution running my own software on a PC. The PC will be tied into various home automation bits and use various inputs to perform various tasks. It's the second take of a project I did many years ago at another property. Not too shabby but didn't suit the home owners then.
Naturally, the latter is going to be unreliable to begin with and may even turn out to be a disaster so I don't want to put all my eggs into this custom solution. My question is if I wire all the wires of a PIR sensor, contact switch, panic alarm etc to a junction point and then split each individual "signal" wire into two (one for each alarm panel), can I expect any undesired effects? I'm no master of electronics but I understand additional circuitory resistance from my second panel might cause odd behaviour within the first panel.
I guess another way to frame my question is, has anyone ever wired one sensor to two identical off the shelf alarm panels in parallel?
Thanks